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s. A. OOHEN. PLAYING CARD.

No. 360,659. Patented Apr. 5, 1887.

INVENTOH WITNESSES:

N. VETERS. PhoIo-Lilhogmphnr, Washington. 012.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

STANLEY A. COHEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PLAYING-CARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,659, dated April 5,1887 Application filed June 16, 1886. Serial No. 205,336.

To aZZ whom, it may concern- Be it known that I, STANLEY A. COHEN, acitizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and original Improvements inPlaying-Cards, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had to the ac companying drawings, forming part thereof.

This improvement consists in a new border, by reason of which the edgesof the cards are made more durable-that is to say, they resist injury tothe same and give greater wear in use. The new border will not exhibitso quickly finger-marks or scratches as the borders of cards now in themarket. The cards can, by reason of myimprovement, be more frequentlyused before there is any appearance of wear or soiling of the borders.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a card containing a back finished accordingto my improve ment. Fig. 2 is a card with aback finished Around (Nomodel.)

this ornamentation is a filling-in color at b on the drawings. 0 is theborder, which is of the 25 same color as the filling-in color I). Thiseffect is produced by having the die carry both the color for thefilling in and the border 0 of the card. There is thus produced anentirely new back in the artna1nely, an ornamented c center with aborder in oil-color similar to the filling-in color at the ornamentedportion of the card. The card thus produced has a novel appearance, andthere is given to the old pattern card, as seen in Fig. 2, a moredurable 35 edge, the oil-color protecting the enamel at that part andgiving greater wear to the card in use.

I claim A playingcard having a border produced 40 in oil-color,substantially as described.

STANLEY A. COHEN.

Witnesses:

LEWIS L. PIERCE, Rom. H. MARSHALL.

